Click the ‘Create Project‘ button from the dashboard page.
Create New Project
A form new project screen is displayed. Enter a name for your project in the Project name field and find your Location to save your project. Click on 'Create'. Your project is being created and will take a few moments.
New Project
Your project library page is displayed. Click the ‘Enable APIs and Services’ button.
Enable API and Services
API library page is displayed.
API Library
On the below youtube section, select and click ‘Youtube Data API v3’.
YouTube Data API
The YouTube Data API v3 overview screen is displayed. Click on ‘ENABLE‘. The API is enabled but cannot be used until you create credentials.
Enable Youtube Data API v3
Click on the ‘Create Credentials‘ button.
Create Credentials
Then, you will be directed to API & Services dashboard. Select the OAuth Consent Screen menu on the left side of the page. Select External and click the 'create' button.
User Type
In the first step, you will be requested to complete your App Information, Enter your app name and user support email. Then, fill in the developer contact information. Click the ‘save and continue’ button after it's done.
OAuth Consent Screen
In the scope step, click the 'add or remove scope' button. Select all of the YouTube Data APIs by clicking on each one and click 'update'. Click 'save and continue' after it's done.
Scope
Then, you will be asked to add a user. This user will be used while publishing status is set to 'Testing', only test users are able to access the app and click 'add'. Click the 'save and continue' button after it's done.
Add User
You will arrive at the summary page. Click 'back to dashboard'.
Summary
After set up your OAuth consent screen, select the Dashboard menu. Click on the ‘Enable APIs and Services’ button.
Enable API and Services
API library page is displayed.
API Library
On the below youtube section, select and click ‘Youtube Data API v3’.
YouTube Data API
The YouTube Data API v3 overview screen is displayed. Click on ‘MANAGE‘.
Manage YouTube Data API v3
Click on the ‘Create Credentials‘ button.
Create Credentials
Then, the credential screen is displayed. On this page, you must complete the required data such as the data below:
Click on the ‘Where will you be calling the API from?‘ field and select ‘Web browser (Javascript)’ from the drop-down menu. This will allow this API to work with the Video Export entity in the portal.
Select ‘User data’ in the ‘What data will you be accessing?’ field.
Click on the ‘What credentials do I need?’ button.
Add Credentials
After done, you will be asked to enter a name for your web client in the ‘Name‘ field, Copy and paste the following URL to the ‘Authorized redirect URLs‘ field, and click the ‘Create OAuth Client ID’ button.
Then, your credentials are created. Click 'download' to download the credentials or you can click 'done' to finish or 'cancel' to cancel the process.
Download Credentials
After you click 'done', you will redirect to the Credentials menu, click on the 'Create Credentials' button. Select the 'API Key' button.
API Key
A pop-up to restrict the API key will appear. Click the 'Restrict Key' button.
Restrict Key
Then, you will redirect to the key restriction page. Select ‘Application type’, enter ‘Name’, and enter your ‘Restriction’, click the ‘Save’ button.
Key Restriction
You will return to the credentials page.
Credentials
If you want to view your client ID and client secret, go to your OAuth 2.0 Client IDs and click on the name of your OAuth 2.0 Client ID. Then, you will find it on the top-right of the page.
Click on (the ‘Configuration’ menu). A configuration drop-down is displayed. Select the ‘Use your own OAuth credentials’ check box.
Configuration
The OAuth credential fields are displayed. Enter the OAuth ‘Client ID’ and ‘Client Secret’ you created in Stage I into the ‘OAuth Client ID’ and 'OAuth Client Secret' fields.
OAuth Credentials
Click on ‘Close‘ to save your settings.
Save Settings
In the ‘Select & authorize APIs’ pane, scroll down and click on ‘YouTube Data API v3’. A drop-down menu will appear displaying all the YouTube Data APIs.
Select & Authorize APIs
Select all of the YouTube Data APIs by clicking on each one. A check marker should correspond to each API method. Click on ‘Authorize APIs’.
YouTube Data API v3
If you haven’t signed in yet, select your Google account.
Choose an Account
Click on ‘Allow’ to give your web application client access to the selected APIs.
Allow Permission
A request/response is displayed in the right pane of the screen.
Request/Response
Click on ‘Exchange authorization code for tokens‘. The request/response pane is updated and displays an authentication JSON object access token.
Exchange Authorization Code for Tokens
Copy your Refresh token displayed between the double quotation marks.
This is the API token you are required to enter in your Company Settings screen within the Vidible platform. In addition, you will need the Client ID and Client Secret obtained previously.
